Saturday, April 2, 2016

Quote for the Day: Michael Caine

"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath."

- Michael Caine (1933 - )

Michael Caine is an English actor and author. Renowned for his distinctive working class cockney accent, Caine has appeared in over 115 films and is regarded as a British film icon. Caine is one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s (the other one being Jack Nicholson; Laurence Olivier was also nominated for an acting Academy Award in five different decades, beginning in 1939 and ending in 1978).

From 1952 to 1954 Caine was a soldier in the British Army’s Royal Fusiliers, which included active service in Korea during the Korean War.

'I was a soldier in Korea and I got into a situation where I knew I was going to die – like the people know they are going to die of cancer, except then we got out of it. But it lasted with me – I was nineteen. That formed my character for the rest of my life. The rest of my life I have lived every bloody moment from the moment I wake up until the time I go to sleep.'